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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag strikes near Hawaii region, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4104996S, -155.2663269WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, Hawaii region, Hawaii kilometers (0 miles) from Hawaii region, Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2663269 West, latitude 19.4104996 North, depth = 0.79 km. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70442767. Unique identifier: hv70442767. The temblor was detected at 23:28:57 / 11:28 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.79 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/07/18 / 2018-07-18 23:28:57 / July 18, 2018 @ 11:28 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-four, in the last 10 days six hundred and sixty-one, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days three thousand, six hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Hawaii region, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2663269° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4104996° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Hawaii region, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-18 23:28:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-18 23:34:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status automatic Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 128 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network hv The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,hv, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.006289 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv70442767 Id of event.
Event Code 70442767 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70442767, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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